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Napoli's arch, built in the 5th century B.C., at about the same time as the Parthenon, was found in the ruins of Elea, an ancient Greek port in the Magna Graecia area of southern Italy. The city dates from 535 B.C., when roving Ionic Greeks landed there after the Persians had driven them out of Phocaea in Asia Minor. Elea flourished as a trading center, a home of philosophers, and a watering place for wealthy Romans (Brutus took refuge there after he did in Julius Caesar). Though it had acknowledged the rule of Rome, the city remained Greek...
...savory truffle is a fungus, and so is the unsavory trifle that causes athlete's foot. Life-saving penicillin comes from one fungus (Penicillium notatum); from another comes the lichen that is slowly devouring the Parthenon. Yet another yields the drug LSD, which has been used experimentally in the treatment of schizophrenic children and alcoholics. Knowledge of the complex, infinitely various, unbelievably hardy fungus kingdom has multiplied immeasurably in the past century. In this fascinating, ambitious book by Lucy Kavaler, its villains, heroes and hopefuls are fully explained to the nonscientific reader...
MELINA MERCOURI'S GREECE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Including a wedding on Crete, the Acropolis, Athens, the Parthenon, Delphi, and the old Byzantine community of Mistras, with music by Manos Hadjidakis and singing by Miss Mercouri. Color...
Yamasaki's 25-ton columns soar 80 ft. The Parthenon's portico rises only 34 ft., and the columns of Paris' Madeleine church climb 65 ft. But Yamasaki winces at the comparison. He prefers to call his colonnade, in congenial fashion, a porch. "When you build something," Yamasaki insists, "you ought to be a good neighbor...
...BIRTH OF GREEK ART by Pierre Demargne. 446 pages. Golden Press. $25. The incomparable flowering of Hellenic culture in the 5th century B.C., the era of the building of the Parthenon and the repulse of the Persians, was in fact preceded by at least 2,500 years of art and civilization in the islands and mainland of the Greek world. First came the full cycle of the pre-Hellenic civilizations of the Minoans and the Mycenaeans, with their varied and sophisticated achievements, which finally flamed out in the 12th century...